Month: August 2009
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UPDATE — Drunk Girl Riot At Friendly Fires Show: Lead Singer Ed MacFarlane Explains What Happened
Last night’s Friendly Fires show at Williamsburg Music Hall was good… until it got amazing. That’s when a drunk fan hopped on stage and began dancing wildly. When she got annoying, lead singer Ed MacFarlane tried to politely nudge her off stage. When that didn’t work, a security guard grabbed her and literally threw her…
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Girl Jumps On Stage At Friendly Fires Show In Brooklyn & Won’t Get Off So They Have No Choice But To Throw Her
***UPDATE: Click here to see lead singer Ed MacFarlane’s backstage explanation for throwing the girl off stage*** Chaos at the Friendly Fires performance in Brooklyn, tonight! When a drunk fan pops up on stage at your show, you dance with her a little, then expect her to kinda dance herself off stage. When you try…
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Sarah Palin Just Found Out What Alex Grossman Did To Her On Facebook
Uh oh. My friend Alex Grossman emailed me last night that the prank’s over, he just got caught being “Governor Palin” on Facebook. Remember that day, months ago, when we could all log on to Facebook and register our names? Well, Alex registered his, like the rest of his. And then — oops — Alex…
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Patrick Hosmer’s Memo to Dunkin’ Donuts, American Apparel & Subway: “Branded Censorship Will Make Us All Rich”
Patrick Hosmer’s new blog post today — “Branded Censorship Will Make Us All Rich” — is pure genius. Patrick’s a great young producer, another breakout talent from the land of mtvU (there’s something in the water at mtvU). Patrick’s a graphic designer, writer, editor, producer…basically a one man creative force. He’s not just brilliant, he…
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Guy Catches Laptops In His Butt
Thanks to MSI for this extremely excellent morning media moment of the day, which everybody and their mother is now passing around. Makes you want one of your very own?
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Update: Benjamin Wagner of MTV News Sings Oasis’ “Wonderwall” In My Office
Last week’s performance in my office by MTV News’ Benjamin Wagner has become a pretty popular post on Something Burning. Seems like people enjoy his music as much in a video square on the interweb as we all did hearing it live. So I thought I’d post another song he did for us that day.…
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Spike TV’s Killer Short Film (Starring Scion)
It’s been inspiring to watch the creative evolution of Spike TV’s short-form franchise REAL MEN OF ACTION. Launched about 3 years ago, it’s led creatively by Spike’s Niels Schuurmans, who in addition to running marketing for Spike, teams up with sponsors like Scion to create original, short-form programming. MTV Networks Entertainment Group integrated marketing guru…
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Daniel Nester Found Out That Hitler Found Out That “United Breaks Guitars”
Back in June, I posted about Dave Carroll, who by now everyone knows had his guitar broken by an initially unrepentant United Airlines. Since then, there have been too many updates to keep up to date on. Tributes, imitations, pledges of solidarity, hateful rants against United Airlines, donations, and now this, which Daniel Nester just…
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Did Slim Find The Real Spiderman?
Si vous pensiez avoir tout vu en matière de ‘Parkour’ détrompez-vous ! Raju ce kenyan de 33 ans est un véritable petit singe qui peut escalader à mains nues. Aniss Slimane (a.k.a. SLIM) sent this to me. Slim himself is one of the world’s next great digital artists. Here’s an interview from Slim’s appearance on…
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VP of MTV News Benjamin Wagner Just Performed In My Office
Turns out, when he’s not running MTV News, Benjamin Wagner writes and performs music. In fact, he’s already got a few indie albums out. Benjamin took a break from breaking news and whatnot, and he came over for a visit just now. My meeting was ending, so Ben picked up a guitar and jammed for…